FOCUS ON: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

In order to maximize investments for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, the Global Fund is supporting countries in integrating interventions for these diseases into sexual and reproductive health services. These services provide a country’s health care system with a critical opportunity to reach people living with and affected by the three diseases. For example, many countries use antenatal care visits to provide pregnant women and their families with insecticide-treated nets to protect them from malaria. Treating men, women and transgender people for sexually transmitted infections is an important element in the response to AIDS. Reaching key populations with comprehensive and quality sexual health and rights services is a critical HIV prevention strategy. And it is through reproductive care services that women can access treatment to prevent transmission of HIV to their unborn children. Everyone deserves access to comprehensive and quality sexual health and rights services.